Reconstruction of Regional Agriculture and Farm Land Resources Management in Less-Favoured Areas

本研究项目的目的是探讨在世界贸易组织《农业协定》的框架下，日本低农户在稻田耕作和农田资源管理方面所采取的措施。在这个研究项目中，研究者明确了以下五个m-am对象：1)分析新法案下的大米价格下降给日本地方自治团体的稻田耕作和土地资源管理带来的新困难，2)重建上述耕作的理由，3)重新审视现有稻田耕作作为培育支柱的意义和局限性，第一种是大规模的个体佃农，第二种是参照区域农业的群体耕作。(4)探索公私合作模式，以弥补现有两类私营农场的上述局限性；(5)研究支持以水田农业为主导的区域农业的战略措施，并以农户老龄化为导向，重构耕地资源管理体制，取代旧体制。

The purpose of this research project is to discuss the measures concerned wit-h reconstruction of paddy-field farming and farm land resources management in the Japanese LFAs under the Agreement on Agriculture in WTO.In this research project the investigator had made clear the following five m-am subjects : l)the analysis of new hardships which a lower price of rice under the new act will bring to paddy-field farming and land resources management in the Japanese LFAs, 2)the rationale of the reconstruction of the above-mentioned farming, 3)the re-examination of meaning and limitations regarding existing paddy-field farms as fostering pillars whose first type is large-scale individual tenant farms, and second type is group farming in reference to regional agriculture, 4)the investigation into a private-public partnership to complement the above-mentioned limitations on two types of existing private farms, 5) the examination of strategic measures to support regional agriculture of which leading part is paddy-field farming and to reconstruct farm land resources management system instead of the old system by aging farm households.